Seamus Heaney

If I could invite a poet of my choice to my school it would be Seamus Heaney. Heaney writes with a distinct emotion which grasps the reader. He writes about things we can all relate to e.g. Mid Term Break. Heaney is a poet I greatly admire because his poems are always the most mind boggling but they can create a clear image of. He writes with a certain enthusaism in his poems. I like the way in Mid-term break, he writes about a very personal experience, the death of his younger brother. Heaney's willingness to talk about such experiences is very appealing to the reader you know the emotions he are writing about arereal compared to some poets.

(b) My favourite poem by Seamus Heaney is Mid Term Break. In Mid Term Break Heaney writes of a very personal experience, the death of a younger brother. Heaney writes from the perspective of a young boy who is still in shock and doesn't quite understand the enormity of the situation. I like the way Heaney uses alliteration to describe the sinuous ringing of bells, "knelling classes to a close".
My favourite aspects of Mid Term Break is the images it creates. Heaney describes the scene at the house very accurately. The platitudes of the neighbours, "it was a hard blow", and incongruous laughing of the baby. "The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram."
Heaney captures the frustration of his mother at the injustice of the situation by using adjectives, " angry, tearless sighs." Like any young boy the reality of the death doesn't hit Heaney until he sees the body, up until then his brother is referred to as "the corpse".
The emotion of the poem really shone through when Heaney wrote about the four foot box. "he lay there as in his cot", emphasising how young and babyish his brother was Heaney repeats the line adding " a foot for every year". In that simple line Heaney captures all his